Webinars

Live webinars are offered monthly and will be available on-demand following each event. Webinars are an exclusive member benefit! Registration and on-demand access is always FREE to CodingIntel members. Have a suggestion for a webinar topic? Email us using the contact link at the bottom of this page.

Transforming Patient Collections: Expert Insights and Strategies | Webinar

Event Date: October 16th, 2024

Guest Presenter Elizabeth Woodcock, DrPH, MBA, FACMPE, CPC

Gain valuable insights on how to effectively respond to industry changes and actionable steps to enhance your revenue cycle management. Join Elizabeth for an engaging and informative webinar centered around navigating the current inflection point in patient collections. Patient financial responsibility is increasing – and it’s time for you to rise to the challenge!

Where Does it Say That? | Webinar

Event Date: October 9th, 2024

Guest Presenter Pam Warren, MHA, COC, CPC, Fellow

This webinar is a guide for auditors and coders looking for regulatory guidance when they are answering coding, compliance and regulatory questions from practitioners and colleagues. This presentation offers common healthcare compliance scenarios and provides the location of the associated guidance.

ICD-10-CM: 2025 Updates | Webinar

Event Date: September 26th, 2024

Guest Presenter Adrienne Commeree, MLS, RHIA, CPC, CPMA, CCS, CEMC, CPIP

The webinar will discuss the FY 2025 ICD-10 -CM code and guidelines updates. We will look at the changes the 2025 ICD-10-CM code book- most will be in the Alphabetic Index and Tabular list.

Developing an Audit Work Plan to Satisfy Your Compliance Program | Webinar

Event Date: September 25th, 2024

Guest Presenter Pam Warren, MHA, COC, CPC, Fellow

There are seven elements of an effective Compliance Plan per the OIG, and one of them is to conduct internal monitoring and auditing.
This presentation will give you some ideas on how to determine what content to audit, how to evaluate your risk, how to set up your audit process, and how best to report your results to your leaders.

Assuring Compliance for Behavioral Health Services | Webinar

Recorded August 15th, 2024

Guest Presenters Cheryl Krusch, LPN, CPC, CPMA, COC, CMDP, ICDCT-CM, and
Natalie Laaman, MHA, CHC, CPC, COC, CDEO

Join us for a comprehensive webinar on assuring compliance for behavioral health services. We will explore essential documentation requirements and coding standards, understand common denial reasons, and learn proactive steps to mitigate risk effectively. Elevate your practice’s compliance standards and ensure proper documentation and coding for revenue integrity

IRE Inpatient Determinations: Case Studies | Webinar

Recorded August 13th, 2024

Guest Presenter Dr. Amarin “Ty” Alexander, MD MBA MA, CHCQM-PHYADV, CPC-A, CIC, CRC, CPMA, CDIP, CDEI

Independent Review Entities review inpatient records for diagnostic accuracy and DRG determinations. This case-study focused webinar will describe important ICD-10-CM Guidelines that establish the rules for these decisions.

2025 CMS Proposed Physician Rule | Webinar

Recorded July 25th, 2024

CMS released its 2025 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule rule on July 10, and it’s packed with coding policy proposals. The conversion factor is always bad news. But, there is good news too.

Five Novel Reimbursement Opportunities – and More to Boost Your Practice’s Payments | Webinar

Recorded: June 2024

Guest Presenter Elizabeth Woodcock, DrPH, MBA, FACMPE, CPC

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have approved five new payment opportunities for 2024 – just the beginning of what promises to be a significant shift in the reimbursement landscape for medical practices.

Shared Services: CPT and CMS Rules | Webinar

Recorded May 16th, 2024

Shared services are E/M services jointly performed by a physician and non-physician practitioner in a facility setting. The service is reported under the National Provider Identifier (NPI) of the practitioner who performs the substantive portion of the service. The substantive portion of the service can be determined by time or medical decision making (MDM).

Preventive Medicine, Wellness Visits and Problem-Oriented Visits | Webinar

Recorded April 18th, 2024

Two for the price of one? Or, double-billing? There are varying opinions about when the documentation supports adding a problem-oriented visit to a CPT preventive service or a Medicare wellness visit. This webinar provides a framework for determining if documentation shows the additional work that was done. We’ll review the examples from the CPT Assistant for guidance (including using time) and discuss what to do about copy/paste.

Home and Nursing Facility Category of Code Rules | Webinar

Recorded March 21st, 2024

This webinar will explain the rules for using Evaluation and Management (E/M) services (E/M) in home and residence locations and nursing and skilled nursing facilities. This includes CMS regulations for nursing facility services. It will discuss reporting multiple E/M services when one of the visits is in a nursing facility. It will describe the correct category of code for…

E&M: Key up the Focus to Complexity and Risk

Recorded February 15. 2024

Guest Presenter Shannon O. DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT

Prior to the new E&M guidelines, AMA CPT did not reference medical necessity. The Claims Process Manual was our main point of reference for the statement Medical necessity is the overarching determining factor. While 2021 Documentation Guidelines uses 2 key components of time and MDM, the guidelines came armed with references of medical necessity littered throughout inferring that maybe it’s NOT always just 2 of the 3 key components.

2024 Reimbursement Reality | Webinar

Recorded January 18, 2024

Discover how shifts in the changing healthcare reimbursement landscape will impact your medical practice in 2024 – and beyond. In this fast-paced presentation, national speaker, trainer, and author Elizabeth Woodcock, DrPH, MBA, FACMPE, CPC highlights emerging trends that can pose both opportunities and threats to your practice in the coming year.

Annual CPT® Changes | Webinar

Recorded December 21, 2023

We’re excited to welcome back Shannon McCall of HCPro for this annual update on CPT® changes.

The American Medical Association’s 2024 update to the CPT® Manual is here, with codes and coding changes effective 1-1-2024. This webinar will describe coding changes, including revised time for E/M office visit codes, spinal tethering procedures, phrenic neurostimulator systems, skull-mounted cranial neurostimulator systems, intraoperative cardiac ultrasound procedures and vaccines for COVID-19 and RSV. Have your CPT® book handy so you can take notes, and join us for the webinar.

CMS’s Final Physician Fee Schedule Rule for 2024 | Webinar

Recorded November 30, 2023

CMS’s 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule serves as its roadmap and policy statement for medical practices. Hear what CMS decided about shared services for 2024, implementation of G2211, new HCPCS codes and rules for group caregiver training, for assessment of Social Determinants of Health, telehealth changes, and more.

E/M Services: High Volume, High Risk | Webinar

Recorded October 19, 2023

According to CMS, E/M services comprise 40% of allowed charges in the physician fee schedule, 20% office visits and 20% other E/M services. Medicare’s expense is medical practice revenue, with the income from some primary care practices comprising 70% or more of total charges. To protect the organization, compliance professionals can focus on four components of E/M:

A Conversation with Two Auditors: Lessons Learned about MDM | Webinar

Recorded September 28, 2023

Medical practices can prepare for audits, improve documentation and decrease compliance risk by sharpening their focus on high-risk areas, high volume services, and/or identifying confusing areas of MDM and developing and following consistent guidelines from appropriate resources. Join Pam D’Apuzzo, CPC, ACS-EM, ACS-MS, CPMA and Debra Rossi, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPMA of VMG Health and me for a lively and informative discussion.

HCC Transition from V24 to V28 | Webinar

Recorded July 20, 2023

CMS is transitioning risk coding from the 2020 V24 model to V28 beginning in 2024. This webinar will provide an overview of HCC coding, its purpose and methodology. We’ll describe the changes and enumerate some of the key differences in coefficients for commonly used conditions between V24 and V28. And finally, learning from OIG audits of Medicare Advantage Organizations and HCC coding, identify diagnosis codes that are frequently incorrectly reported.

Reporting the Global Surgical Package | Webinar

Recorded June 15, 2023

The global surgical package provides a single payment for services normally performed before, during and after a procedure. This webinar will review both CPT and CMS rules and explain what services are included in the payment and what services may be reported separately.

CPT Coding for Bronchoscopy Procedures | Webinar

Recorded May 18, 2023

Guest Presenter Shannon McCall of HCPro joins us once again for a CPT® focused webinar on all things bronchoscopy! This webinar will describe coding for bronchoscopy, with and without biopsy, with ultrasound guidance, and with procedures. It includes coding by the number of lobes visualized for certain procedures. There are three case studies to illustrate the coding rules for these procedures.

Coding for Hospital Services | Webinar

Recorded April 20, 2023

First, CPT® updated their E/M code set. Then, CMS interpreted the updates and applied their own reimbursement rules to the code set. This webinar will summarize CPT® rules and CMS’s February 2023 transmittal that addresses inpatient and observation billing by the admitting and consulting physicians, admission to inpatient status following observation care, and multiple visits in a single day. The webinar will discuss when coding instruction is the same for CPT® and CMS and when it varies.

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